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GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
“AGRICULTURE Scientific and Professional Review” (ISSN 1330-7142) is published by The Faculty of Agriculture in
Osijek and The Osijek Agricultural Institute. Scientific and professional papers are published in both Croatian and English language.
Papers are accepted on the understanding that they have not been or will be published elsewhere. Inferences, summaries, synopses,
master’s theses, dissertations as well as presentations at symposia are not considered as published papers. Book surveys
or their reviews, short translations and communications covering agriculture field will also be published in the journal supplement.
The manuscripts submitted to Editorial Board in 2 copies and should meet propositions as follows:
• Maximum paper scope (including tables, graphs, figures and other supplements) is 10 printed pages of A-4
format (30 000 characters, including spaces between words), dissertation summary 2 pages and master’s one 1 page.
• Text should be written in Microsoft Word for Windows version 6.0 or higher, Font Times New Roman, with line spacing
2. All margins should be 2.5 cm
• whole text should be written in letters sized 11 except head title (size 12), authors’ names and addresses, summaries
and graphs and tables description (size 10). Headtitle and subtitles of the sections should be written in bolded capital letters.
• paragraph must not be drawn in, neither key tabulator can be used, paragraphs should be divided by ENTER key. Automatic
page numbering should be used (position bottom right)
• Full authors’ names with titles, occupations and addresses of the institutions they work at (letter size 10, italic) should be
placed at the bottom of the first page below 3 cm long line, they are not allowed to be written in the automatic footnote program.
In case of footnote writing, automatic footnotes are advised.
• Cited authors in the paper must not be bolded, written in italic or capitalized.
• Graphs, figures and schemes should be as clear as possible and easy to survey. They must be saved in Winword and edited
as an integral part of the paper (in the text). Titles of tables and graphs in the paper written in Croatian language should be bolded
whereas English translations in italic are devised to be unbolded and vice versa (font 10). Colour graphs and figures are not
welcome. Due to more sured paper printing, graphs and figures should also be submitted in one of graphic or figure formats
(*.xls, *.tiff or *.jpg). They must not be submitted as drawings on parchment paper. Titles as well as contents of
tables, graphs, figures and schemes of the paper must be also translated in English and vice versa. If the paper is written
in Croatian language titles of tables, graphs, figures and schemes should be written in bolded letters whereas English translations
of their titles as well as contents should be written in italic unbolded letters and vice versa.
• Only commas should be written in Croatian texts while using decimal numbers in both text and tables whereas a point
in an English version. In Croatian texts and tables as well as in a literature list a point should be placed after all mentioned
years.
Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 critics from corresponding field and language edited. Papers are classified by
reviewers into: original scientific paper, scientific review, preliminary communication, conference paper and professional
paper. All papers have UDK classification number (a paper is classified per certain fields). Titles, summaries, key-words, tables
and graphs of the papers printed in Croatian language must be written in English (italic) and vice versa. English version of summary
and key-words in the Croatian printed text is placed at the end of the paper after Literature chapter and vice versa.
Generally, all papers should be divided into the following sections:
TITLE: Should be as short as possible, informative, written in capital (bolded) letters, font 12. Initials of authors’ name (full
name for females) and surname without academic titles should be placed below the title. Each surname should be followed by an
exponent if authors do not work in the same institution (bolded letters in italic font 11).
SUMMARY: A core display of the paper presenting readers clear idea of what it is about. Summary should be written in
bolded letters in italic (font 10) enabling printing the paper in referable journals without a large-scale revision. Optimal length should
be kept to approx. 100 words. Summary should contain key-words, vital for incorporating into information systems, that must
also be written in bolded italic letters (font 10).
INTRODUCTION: Displays an idea and aim of the conducted investigations. Very selective review of the literature may also
be given here if there is no special section “Literature review”.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: Only new or modified methods are described in details whereas literature source is given for
recognized methods and procedures.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Determined facts and regularities are described, phenomena are explained whereas set up
hypothesis is confirmed or denied. Significance of the own investigations should be substantiated by comparing them with other
authors’ papers. Care should be taken in avoiding repeted data in tables, graphs and again in the text.
CONCLUSION: Contains synthesis of the investigations and results. While writing take care of the presentation graduation.
REFERENCES: References should be listed alphabetically by putting ordinal number before the first author, full data is
required (authors, year, reference name, editor, editing place, pages). Authors should not be written in capital letters.
Final versions of papers, corrected regarding to reviewer’s opinions, must be sent to Editorial Board printed in one
copy and on a floppy disk. Manuscripts and disks will not be returned.
Address: Editorial Board of the Journal “Agriculture”, The Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek, Trg Sv. Trojstva 3, 31000
Osijek, Croatia
Editor in Chief: Draženka Jurković, +385 31 224 245; Fax: 385 31 207 017; Technical Editors: Manda Antunović, Tel.:
+385 31 224 255; Fax: +385 31 207 017; E-mail: mantun@pfos.hr and Danica Hanžek, Tel. + 385 31 224 240; E-mail:
dhanzek@pfos.hr
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